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Re: Primaries, Secondaries, and synonym chains, oh my!
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Fred White <[log in to unmask]>
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Fred White <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:53:33 -0700
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On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 02:25  PM, David Powell wrote:

> I think the only time records actually MOVE is when you delete the
> chain
> head (address 100 in your example).
>
> When you nuke a secondary, all that happens to other records is that
> pointers get updated.

David is absolutely right (almost). The chain count in the primary also
gets decremented.

FW

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